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Some observations from the miniatures game:
All Battle Droids: not so good
Battle Droids with Geonisian Overseers providing Double Attacks: very good
All Jedi: not so good
Jedi with Clones and Aurra Sing: quite good

Last week, I found a very cheap supplier of single miniatures from the Clone Strike expansion for Star Wars Miniatures. Coolstuffinc.com has, on average, the lowest prices I’ve seen for Clone Strike figures. I was especially happy to see their very low prices for “bulk” infantry such as Clone Troopers and Battle Droids.
kwc and I purchased a bunch of figures which should arrive within a week. He concentrated on Jedi, while I went for the large groups of basic troops. In addition to the figures that are coming, we both have a handful of figures already, including Jango Fett and General Kenobi for kwc and Darth Maul for me.
Here’s the list of incoming figures:
kwc’s list:
C3-PO
General Veers (These first two will help play scenarios with our classic figs)
ARC Trooper
7 Clone Troopers
4 Clone Trooper Commanders
2 Clone Trooper Sergeants
Agen Kolar
3 Jedi Guardians
Ki-Ad-Mundi
Kit Fisto
Luminara Unduli
Mace Windu
Qui-Gon Jinn
Saesee Tinn
Asajj Ventress
2 Dark Side Acolytes
Durge
Aurra Sing
Zam Wesell
my list:
Aayla Secura
20 Clone Troopers
4 Clone Trooper Commanders
4 Clone Trooper Grenadiers
4 Clone Trooper Sergeants
Luminara Unduli
Asajj Ventress
20 Battle Droids
4 Battle Droid Officers
Destroyer Droid
4 Geonosian Overseers
20 Security Battle Droids
10 Super Battle Droids
Zam Wesell
So kwc can bring the Jedi action and I can field hordes of disposable troops. Fun all ’round.

Back in high school, I killed time in AP Chemistry one day figuring out what would happen if someone in the Rifts setting wearing typical personal body armor were hit by a typical rail gun burst. The basics:
A Rifts rail gun burst involves multiple high-velocity projectiles
It doesn’t breach the armor (always nice to have body armor that can stop anti-tank weapons)
The outcome, in short, was that the target would be sent flying across the landscape at a remarkably high speed, certainly beating them to a complete pulp inside their amazing armor. It’s a fun, if icky, SF image.
At least the armor’s recoverable.

We just watched the Revenge of the Sith trailer.
I’m psyched.
I’m well aware that Attack of the Clones is a painful movie experience. Note all the rewriting stuff earlier.
Regardless, I’m psyched.
On a related note of Sith Goodness, I recently bought one booster of miniatures for the Clone Strike set for Star Wars Miniatures. We mostly have original trilogy miniatures and haven’t bought prequel ones, as there’s just more of an emotional attachment to, say, Stormtroopers than Clonetroopers. kwc bought the Clone Strike starter set, so he has General Kenobi and Jango Fett (to complement his Boba Fett from the original set). I decided I’d buy one booster to see what I ended up with, and I now have Darth Maul. Nifty, and a good complement to my Darth Vader.
We ran the two against each other a few times and Maul won unless Vader got lucky. This makes sense, though, as Maul is better on his own, whereas Vader is a good team player (assuming the other members of the team don’t mind summary executions when they screw up).